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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2018-07-31 human Helen Cohn updated 2024-12-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006096b.htm person O'Brien Claude Harding AACR2 14 December 1879 4 November 1960 Place of Birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Sugar technologist Claude O'Brien was a chemist whose career was in the sugar industry in Queensland. To determine the amount of fibre in the cane that was being crushed, he designed and patented the cane fibrator, a machine that became standard laboratory equipment in Queensland's sugar mills. With J. H. Reed, he devised a system of payment to growers such that they were not disadvantaged by having to harvest when the sugar content of the cane was low: This scheme was adopted throughout Queensland. In 1915 O'Malley was appointed to the Central Cane Prices Board, which was established to hear appeals relating to the prices set for cane. At the request of the South African Planter's Association, O'Malley spent six months from August 1922 in South Africa to advise the local industry. His recommendations on pricing, the types to cane to grow, and the need for a sugar experiment station were all accepted. O'Malley represented the Australian Sugar Producers' Association at three congresses of the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists. He was a founding member and served of the executives of both the Queensland Branch of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the Queensland Society of Sugar Cane Technologists. 1901 1903 Career position - Junior Assistant Chemist, Queensland Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations 1903 1905 Career position - Chief Chemist, Fiji Sugar Company Ltd 1905 1908 Career position - Supervising Chemist, Queensland Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg 1908 1909 Career position - Chief Sugar Chemist, Mossman Central Sugar Mill Co. Ltd 1909 1915 Career position - Sugar Chemist, Mulgrave Central Mill Co. Ltd 1915 1925 Career position - Chemist, Central Cane Prices Board, Brisbane 1917 1917 Career position - Founding Member, Queensland Branch, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1922 1923 Career position - Advisor to the South African Planter's Association 1925 1930 Career position - Chief Sugar Chemist, Mossman Central Sugar Mill Co. Ltd 1929 1929 Career position - Founding Member, Queensland Society of Sugar Cane Technologists 1930 1944 Career position - Technical Advisor, Australian Sugar Producers' Board 1931 1937 Career position - Executive Member, Queensland Society of Sugar Cane Technologists 1933 1935 Career position - Member of Committee, Queensland Branch, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1935 1950 Career position - Editor, Australian Sugar Journal 1941 1950 Career position - Executive Member, Queensland Society of Sugar Cane Technologists Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Colony and State of Queensland (1900 - 2003)

Supervising Chemist 1905 - 1908

 Queensland Society of Sugar Cane Technologists (1929 - 1979)

Foundation Member 1929; Executive Member 1931 - 1937 and 1941 - 1950

 O'Brien, Claude Harding (18791214-19601104)

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 'O'Brien, Claude Harding', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology O'Brien, Claude Harding Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: O'Brien, Claude Harding (1879-1960), sugar-technologist Griggs, Peter D. O'Brien, Claude Harding (1879-1960), sugar-technologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2000 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie John Ritchie 507-508